PLEASE JOIN OUR PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH STEVE WALDMAN TO DISCUSS NEW METHODS FOR SAVING LOCAL JOURNALISM FROM HEDGE FUND SQUEEZING TOMORROW at 3:30 P.M. ET Click to Register [[link removed]]

The Center for Journalism & Liberty and the Open Markets Institute invite you to join a webinar featuring Steve Waldman in conversation with advocates about his new paper [[link removed]] and proposals. His outline will be contrasted with a similar idea, coming out of the Shorenstein Center, called the National Trust for Local News, that would assemble capital to finance the transition of locally-owned newspapers to more sustainable forms.

Waldman's plan could transform some of the 6,700 privately owned newspapers into community-grounded institutions. Read more here [[link removed]]:

Participants include:

Steve Waldman [[link removed]], CEO and cofounder, Report for America, and author of landmark 2011 FCC report on the future of local media Jody Brannon [[link removed]], director of the Center for Journalism & Liberty Fraser Nelson [[link removed]], vice president, business innovation, Salt Lake Tribune Denise Rolark Barnes [[link removed]], publisher of the Washington Informer and chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association Elizabeth Hansen [[link removed]], Ph.D., lead researcher of the News Sustainability and Business Models project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School Marc Hand [[link removed]], CEO of Public Media Venture Group Click to Register [[link removed]] Open Markets Institute

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